Songs of color then songs that have a fluid theme...

When: Monday nite 5/16, 7:30pm EDT.
(“doors” open at 7 for community hang)

Where: https://youtu.be/nxwNHasanZc

Who gets 10%: Somerville Cambridge Elder Services - https://eldercare.org/ enable older adults and younger people with disabilities to remain living in their own or their families’ homes for as long as they choose to do so. They balance checkbooks, do banking, and other stuff many folks take for granted.

http://paypal.me/vancevancevance or
https://venmo.com/vancevancevance or
a check to VanceFunder P.O. Box 17,
Arlington, MA 02476 for this web-groovery.
Pay or not, up to you. Let’s stay connected.

This week's pajamas; Seersucker bottoms and a T shirt

NEW ALBUM. Donate any amount = name on the cover. Same links above, note “VanceFunder”. Any amount over $1, but $1000 -plus- makes you exec producer, name in heavy black font.

May 26 - June 12, Kerrville TX - https://www.kerrvillefolkfestival.org/ and https://www.kerrvillefolkfestival.org/songwriters-school

I teach and play. Medium-low peeple numbers so it’ll be safer than not. 10 more people at the SongSchool and it’ll break even.

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NEW ALBUM PROGRESS AND GRATITUDE WRAPPED UP IN ONE

Yes. This.
You gave money. You have great faith and trust in me. How do I start to thank you? Here’s what I've done with it so far:

- Covid in the house of engineer Sam Margolis, owner of Riverview Sound, has set us back a week or so, cause I had Berklee’s head of the Gospel and Organ department Dennis Montgomery lined up. He’ll come in a few weeks hence, to round out the rhythm sectionness.

- Grammy Award winner Lori McKenna comes in for harmony vocals next Tuesday night.

- Joey Dalton (from Good Good Man) and Amy Malkoff (my web ma’am and crack harmony vocalist) do Wednesday night.

- Nando Michelin on piano, me on vocals, and *that’s it* on my tour de force I Hope He’s The One This Time Thursday nite. I’ve known of Nando on the jazz scene in Boston for many years, but it was a few successive Christmas services at a friend’s UCC Church where we laid out Oh Holy Night. I vowed we’d record something someday. That someday is here.

- Wynter Pingel on the sweetest concertina on a tune I’m not telling you which yet.

- Maeve Gilchrist plays jazz bebop harp later in this month or in June on Bad For Me. Jazz Harp, I swear, with her expertise, it’ll be a consummate riot.

- The other horns and piano will be recorded and played by Joe Mennonna. Yes he will play all the woodwinds and brass. Piano too. I swear, this alum of the Bacon Brothers and Tom Rush bands is frightening.

- You heard of The Brothers Landreth? Think Subdudes from Canada. Joey Landreth from that band will be on guitar in June.

- Drummer Marco Giovino (Tom Jones, Nora Jones, Patty Griffin, Robert Plant) and bassist Craig Akin (Red Molly, everybody,) round out my rhythm section.

Did i say thank you? Now lemme get back to recording...

(pic Craig Harris)